Here lies a man who was killed by lightning;He died when his prospects seemed to be brightening....He might have cut a flash in this world of trouble,But the flash cut him, and he lies in the stubble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind... of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

New Yorkers speak more quickly and shift topics more rapidly. We all know that. But the way it's done is fascinating. At least it ...fascinated me when I first moved to New York. Someone has the floor and talks. As soon as I know what they are going to say, I can jump in, finish the sentence to show I understand, and take off into my own turn. The northern California I know isn't like that. Someone talks, and I lie back and listen and let them roll for a while. When they're done, there'll be a pause that will flash like a green light to announce that someone else can have the floor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where prev...iously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,...we ourselves flash and yearn,and moreover my mother told me as a boy(repeatingly) "Ever to confess you're boredmeans you have noInner Resources." I conclude now I have noinner resources, because I am heavy bored.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »